impala68

actually it was a hardware thing 

turns out it was a loose memory chip that happened after the last time i booted into windows 

 

and i got sleep working 

 

last on the list startup/shutdown

it works 90% of the time flawlessly 

 

but then both on startup and shutdown i get the black screen with no hd activity ... only way out is the power button ... and then it boots fine 

 

any thoughts

i'm on a similar mission as i have 2 m6300's and the wifes 2008 15" mackbook pro just died 

 

so i took a retail 10.9.2 and made a unifail boot using the bootpack for the m4300 dsdt and /e/e ... needed -v -f cpus=1 PCIRootUID=0 and graphicsenabler=no to get it installed ... then multifail with the dsdt from the bootpack 

 

so from that point i dug up the sound card, and ethernet kexts and that gave me a 95% functioning machine 

 

what is working:

sound 

battery

wifi 

wired ethernet

boot and shutdown (most of the time)

 

whats not working:

sleep 

memory

shutdown (sometimes have to hold power button down to complete shutdown)

 

my main concern that i'm working on now is:

chimera (chameleon, stolen and rebranded) and osx only sees 2gb of memory when the machine has 4gb in it 

from about this mac and memory info it shows only one memory slot populated when both have 2 gb chips in them 

 

windows sees all the memory so its not a hardware issue 

from what i have read it seems to be either a system definition issue or something like that but i cant seem to find anything on how to set this part up or which one i should be using on this machine 

 

anyone have any ideas or pointers for me on this one?